The 56-year-old comedian and provocateur recently posed for photographer Tyler Shields with a bloodied, "decapitated head" meant to look like Donald Trump's. The gory photos, obtained by TMZ, are going viral on Twitter and people are horrified.

"Tyler and I are not afraid to do images that make noise," says Kathy Griffin in a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot. She also jokes to the photographer: "we have to move to Mexico today because we're going to go to prison."

They certainly made some noise. People on both sides of the political spectrum are fuming over the "upsetting and disgusting" photos.

This Kathy Griffin thing is so upsetting and disgusting. Jesus--what is wrong with people today? Have we lost all our humanity?

Griffin has made no secret of, well, anything. But especially her dislike for the president. “What an idiot. We gotta watch this idiot for an hour and nine minutes? He just says one hateful thing after the other," she said in a March interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "He’s so embarrassing."

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Trump has yet to respond to #DecapitateGate. But we already know he doesn't take well to jokes about his demise (or about himself in general). Back in March, when Snoop Dogg released a video where he aims a fake gun at a clown dressed like Trump, the president took to Twitter to threaten the rapper with "jail time."

And Snoop Dogg's video was child's play compared to Kathy Griffin's photo shoot. So we're a little nervous for how this will all pan out.

The funny thing about this feud, as several have pointed out, is Kathy Griffin and Donald Trump aren't even that different in terms of their public persona.

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The last time a D-list celebrity did something as offensive as Kathy Griffin did he got elected President.